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ix, 241 pages : 2 maps, 2 portraits ; 21 cm

Wallace and Bates in the Tropics : an introduction to the theory of natural selection, based on the writings of Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates / edited by Barbara G. Beddall.

x, 2 unnumbered pages, 252 pages including frontispiece : portraits ; 20 cm

Pioneers of evolution from Thales to Huxley : with an intermediate chapter on the causes of arrest of the movement / by Edward Clodd.

xiii, 284 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf : illustrations, facsimiles, map ; 24 cm

Just before the origin : Alfred Russel Wallace's theory of evolution / John Langdon Brooks.

First day cover envelope with 10 postage stamps issued by the Royal Mail Group Ltd. on Thursday, 25 February 2010. It has all 10 stamps stuck to it and they have been cancelled by the official first day of issue cancellation stamp and includes a 'stiffener' card with the signatures of those on the stamps. The stamps show Robert Boyle (chemistry), Edward Jenner (smallpox vaccination), Ernest Rutherford (atomic structure), Isaac Newton (optics), Charles Babbage (computers), Dorothy Hodgkin (crystallography), Benjamin Franklin (electricity), Alfred Russel Wallace (evolution), Joseph Lister (antiseptic surgery), Nicholas Shackleton (earth science).

Postage stamps. Box 6A, Great Britain.

1 envelope : color illustrations, portraits ; 13 x 22 cm

The Royal Society : 350 years : Royal Mail first day cover / Royal Mail.

Yale studies in the history of science and medicine

Wallace and natural selection / by H. Lewis McKinney.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes leaflets, Post office stamp postcards, Liebig cards, bank notes, gummed sticker / stamps, Brooke Bond tea cards, newspaper clippings etc. The people represented are: Eleanor Rathbone, Wilhelm Röntgen, Rudolphus, Ernest Rutherford, Sir Martin Ryle, Mary Seacole, Nicholas Shackleton, Erik Skovenborg, Marie Stopes, Sir Henry Thompson, Queen Victoria (visiting the sick at Osborne), Louis Wain, Alfred Russel Wallace, James D. Watson, Mary Wollstonecraft (2009 UK postage stamp and Newington Green Action Group's memorial project, 2011).

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Biography ephemera. Box 3, R-Z.

343 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

The nearly men : a chronicle of scientific failure / Mike Green.

The third in a very informative three-part series in which Andrew Marr looks in depth at all aspects of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. This part looks at how the way we inhabit the earth is leading to mass extinction and how we've struggled to understand and accept the full implications of Darwin's legacy. Marr looks back at how Darwin's theory of natural selection upset the Victorian people of his tme and led to his fears at publishing his research. However, in the Indonesian jungle, naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was reaching similar conclusions to Darwin. He wrote to Darwin and Darwin was finally impelled to publish. Following this, Ernst Heckel founded the science of ecology; Wallace noted the way in which extinction could be induced by the interference of man rather than being a natural part of evolution. Darwin's final book was on worms and showed how vital the earthworm is to our lives. The effects of industrialisation led to huge concerns about our changing relationship with nature; William Morris, in particular, campaigned to save the beauty of the English countryside. But it wasn't until the arrival of moth enthusiast James W Tutt that Darwin's theory was connected to the effect of industrialisation on evolution. His discovery showed that in industrialised areas, the black version of the peppered moth survived and increased, while the paler variety became extinct. This provided proof that the behaviour of humankind on their environment could directly influence the path of evolution. Other ecological studies ensued, leading to Rachel Carson's publication of 'Silent Spring,' which looked into the dangers of pesticides; a book now regarded as the original battle cry for the modern environmental movement. James Lovelock expanded Darwinian theory to describe a global ecosystem based on biological feedback. He called this the Gaia hypothesis. This coupled with the first view of our planet taken from the surfaceof the earth, led to the beginnings of environmentalism.

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Wallace and Bates in the Tropics : an introduction to the theory of natural selection, based on the writings of Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates / edited by Barbara G. Beddall.

Pioneers of evolution from Thales to Huxley : with an intermediate chapter on the causes of arrest of the movement / by Edward Clodd.

Just before the origin : Alfred Russel Wallace's theory of evolution / John Langdon Brooks.

The Royal Society : 350 years : Royal Mail first day cover / Royal Mail.

Wallace and natural selection / by H. Lewis McKinney.

Biography ephemera. Box 3, R-Z.

The nearly men : a chronicle of scientific failure / Mike Green.

Darwin's dangerous idea. Part 3, Life and death.

Darwin's armada / Iain McCalman.

An elusive Victorian : the evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace / Martin Fichman.

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Wallace and Bates in the Tropics : an introduction to the theory of natural selection, based on the writings of Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates / edited by Barbara G. Beddall.

Pioneers of evolution from Thales to Huxley : with an intermediate chapter on the causes of arrest of the movement / by Edward Clodd.

Just before the origin : Alfred Russel Wallace's theory of evolution / John Langdon Brooks.

The Royal Society : 350 years : Royal Mail first day cover / Royal Mail.

Wallace and natural selection / by H. Lewis McKinney.

Biography ephemera. Box 3, R-Z.

The nearly men : a chronicle of scientific failure / Mike Green.

Darwin's dangerous idea. Part 3, Life and death.

Darwin's armada / Iain McCalman.

An elusive Victorian : the evolution of Alfred Russel Wallace / Martin Fichman.

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